A very annoying example of this is a recent Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS) attack on twitter, now to do this neither do you need to have access to a server nor do you have to have physical presence on it, all you have to do is keep sending requests at such a rate that the service cannot process legitimate one’s, now read this article at Wikipedia to understand what DoS and DDos actually means.

Now let’s talk a bit about hacking, what does hacking mean? Hacking means that someone has physical access to your information either through direct access or through a worm/trojan/spyware planted on your PC, and they can carry out attacks on your machine directly, for more information about hacking read this post on Wikipedia about Hacker.

Now did twitter get physically compromised today? No, not at all they were under a DoS or DDos, so how the hell were they hacked? Yea reading the above you might think so to, but our really so intelligent Indian media has this to say.

• DNA India – Twitter site shut in hack attack
• IBN Live – Twitter down in hack attack

Now I didn’t bother reading other news because this is utter bullshit, not only are they spreading wrong information they are also teaching their audiences wrong things, in addition to that they have no sense of research or other things, this is really unacceptable and wrong, if I had the choice I would fire their asses out and keep them away from writing any technology related articles.

This is not the first time I have seen such utter bullshit come through, my point of ranting is that you are someone who most of the people rely on for information, not every tom, dick and harry has access to internet, when you write such things you are already sending a wrong message and providing wrong information to the masses.

A basic check on things would have gotten things settled out, but we should also remember most of these media companies run on exaggeration and Rakhi Sawant.

Copyright © 2009 Keith Dsouza

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